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View article: Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: the Fresh Street pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: the Fresh Street pilot cluster randomised controlled trial Open
Background Households in areas of socio-economic deprivation are more likely to consume diets low in fruit and vegetables. Fresh Street is a place-based fruit and vegetable voucher scheme with vouchers redeemable with local independent (no…
View article: Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: The Fresh Street Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: The Fresh Street Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial Open
Background: Households in areas of socio-economic deprivation are more likely to consume diets low in fruit and vegetables. Fresh Street is a place-based fruit and vegetable voucher scheme with vouchers redeemable with local independent (n…
View article: Characterization of food insecurity among the forced migrants in northern Nigeria
Characterization of food insecurity among the forced migrants in northern Nigeria Open
Food insecurity affects many people worldwide. More than one billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa are food insecure. About 35% of this population, representing 346 million, are food insecure because of conflicts and political unrest. About…
View article: Epstein–Barr virus-positive primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the urinary bladder: a case report
Epstein–Barr virus-positive primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the urinary bladder: a case report Open
Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) of the urinary bladder is a rare event, with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) being the most common form of NHL and urinary bladder lymphoma. It is an aggressive tumour with a poor prognosis if not…
View article: Fresh Street Report_Sheffield
Fresh Street Report_Sheffield Open
Many people in the UK have diets low in fresh fruit and vegetables and high in energy-dense, nutrient-poor, processed foods. There are multiple drivers of poor diet including living in a food desert which is characterised by inadequate acc…
View article: Working across boundaries in regional place-based food systems: Triggering transformation in a time of crisis
Working across boundaries in regional place-based food systems: Triggering transformation in a time of crisis Open
Drawing on research exploring food system change in a region in the North of England during the Covid-19 health pandemic, in this paper we explore how a “managerial” approach to food system governance and provisioning embedded in national …
View article: A "Safe" and "Just" Regional Food System
A "Safe" and "Just" Regional Food System Open
This report draws on research conducted between April and December 2020 involving over 30 interviews with regional food system and local/ national policy actors. The research set out to understand; 1) the pressure points in that emerged in…
View article: Fresh street: the development and feasibility of a place-based, subsidy for fresh fruit and vegetables
Fresh street: the development and feasibility of a place-based, subsidy for fresh fruit and vegetables Open
Background Many UK communities experience food insecurity, and consume diets high in energy-dense, nutrient poor, processed foods and low in fruit and vegetables (FV). We explored a novel area-based approach to promote FV consumption and h…
View article: The author imago: addressing a lacuna in hermeneutic applications of the Author-figure
The author imago: addressing a lacuna in hermeneutic applications of the Author-figure Open
I propose that literary theory should recognise the individual mental image of the author that each reader has, and use it to understand the different ways in which readers interpret the same text. I argue that this figure does not current…
View article: More than Just Food: Food Insecurity and Resilient Place Making through Community Self-Organising
More than Just Food: Food Insecurity and Resilient Place Making through Community Self-Organising Open
This research considers the relationship between neoliberalism, poverty and food insecurity and how this impacts on the ability of a community to self-organise and become resilient. Specifically, it examines shocks imposed by the implement…
View article: Prophylactic anti-coagulation after severe burn injury in critical care settings
Prophylactic anti-coagulation after severe burn injury in critical care settings Open
Background. Severely burnt patients are at an increased risk of thromboembolic complications, hence sufficient prophylactic anticoagulation is of paramount importance. Local guidelines at the Burns Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, B…
View article: What Can Dietary Patterns Tell Us about the Nutrition Transition and Environmental Sustainability of Diets in Uganda?
What Can Dietary Patterns Tell Us about the Nutrition Transition and Environmental Sustainability of Diets in Uganda? Open
Uganda is undergoing dietary transition, with possible environmental sustainability and health implications, particularly for women. To explore evidence for dietary transitions and identify how environmentally sustainable women’s dietary p…
View article: Food Ladders: A multi-scaled approach to everyday food security and community resilience
Food Ladders: A multi-scaled approach to everyday food security and community resilience Open
The food ladders approach is a novel, evidence-based approach for creating and household and community resilience by capitalising on the capacity of food to bring people together. Food Ladders is not like existing household food insecurity…
View article: The Emergent Author: Affective Response to a Friend of a “Very Special, Artificial Kind”
The Emergent Author: Affective Response to a Friend of a “Very Special, Artificial Kind” Open
An author may merely be a projection we insert into the text, but this interpretive reality does not feel so banal and ephemeral when we are doing it. Nor does it prevent us, though, however sophisticated our reading practices may be, from…
View article: Formality and Friendship: Research Ethics Review and Participatory Action Research
Formality and Friendship: Research Ethics Review and Participatory Action Research Open
While Participatory Action Research (PAR) is gaining a foothold in geographical research practice, universities and major funding bodies are imposing ethics review procedures that are inherently contradictory to doing PAR. This paper exami…